Customer

TIGI Linea produces and sells various hair care products, including shampoos, conditioners and lighteners, to hairdressers, salon owners and consumers. Now based in Lewisville, Texas, it was incorporated in 1985 and now operates as a subsidiary of global giant Unilever.

Challenge

TIGI had relied on numerous SPARC® servers over the years, but they had become outdated, slow, and costly to support. TIGI wanted to find a more modern, flexible hardware platform with robust virtualization capabilities to support its critical e-business and e-commerce functions.

Solution

The company replaced seven legacy servers with three Fujitsu M10-1 servers, which now run Oracle E-Business Suite and web services for 350 global users. The SPARC64® X+ processors deliver blistering speeds within a compact 1U chassis.

Benefit

Application performance has increased by 50 percent, making users more productive

Electricity and air conditioning bills have been cut dramatically courtesy of the reduced energy demand

TIGI can flexibly add and remove CPU cores to scale with the business and control software licensing spend

The Fujitsu M10-1 server’s small form factor frees up precious space in the data center